Clinical Applications and Case Studies Section Comment on: Development and Preliminary Validation of the Mentalizing...

This invited commentary evaluates the impact of Lakhani and colleagues who reported on two studies aimed at developing and evaluating a new tool for the assessment of mentalizing capacity. The commentary places the work of Lakhani et al. in the context of routine clinical care and discusses additional approaches to the assessment of mentalizing that may be considered. The commentary furthermore highlights the importance of the assessment of mentalizing in the context of other, more descriptive approaches to personality assessment.